Mecha Metal
#848393
A neutral that has no useful hue — it reads as a grey. It is light — black text sits on it comfortably, white text does not.
Hex
#848393
RGB
132, 131, 147
OKLCh
61.6% 0.024 288.5°
CIELAB (D50)
55.3, 2.9, -8.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 6 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it.
- It uses only 11% of the chroma available at this lightness and hue — there is a far more vivid version of this colour inside sRGB.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 64.8; on black, Lc -36.9. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- All three dichromacies see it as very nearly the same colour you do: its hue is not the part carrying its identity.
Text on this colour
White text
3.72:1 — large text only
Black text
5.65:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at5.65:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#767585 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#848393
protanopia
#838393 · ΔE00 0.5
deuteranopia
#838393 · ΔE00 0.6
tritanopia
#838390 · ΔE00 1.5
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isFormal Affair at ΔE00 0.842: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- Formal AffairΔE00 0.842 · #848391
- MetroΔE00 1.081 · #828393
- ClairvoyanceΔE00 1.22 · #838493
- Modest MauveΔE00 1.468 · #838492
- MiracleΔE00 1.627 · #898696
- Dusty ChimneyΔE00 1.855 · #888899
- Blue JasmineΔE00 2.15 · #828596
- In the TwilightΔE00 2.166 · #84838e
- PurpletoneΔE00 2.341 · #837f92
- Purple RagwortΔE00 2.756 · #8c8798
- HorseshoeΔE00 3.003 · #8b8893
- Majestic MountΔE00 3.022 · #7c8091
10 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.